Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ASPIRE COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE (SHEFFIELD) LIMITED 

Provision of employment experience and trainng for the long term unemployed and marginalsed.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£185£192£-7n/an/an/an/an/a19
31/03/22£198£179£19n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/21£145£130£15n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/20£124£116£8n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19*£124£116£8n/an/an/an/an/a13
31/03/18*£121£115£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£101£104£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£92£101£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£72£68£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£63£55£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£56£52£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£30£32£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£59£68£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£81£84£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£81£83£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£87£83£4£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 18 years
(23 years as a company)

www.aspire-sheffield.co.uk

info@aspire-sheffield.co.uk

01142853788

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Technical, vocational and continuing education
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Where it operates
  • Barnsley, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 19 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Travel costs for job training opportunities
£500 15/11/2019
Towards travel costs for financially disadvantaged people to attend job training opportunities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Aspire to Expand
£10,000 28/06/2018
12
The group will purchase a van to enable them to provide more volunteer placements, through collecting and recycling waste electronic equipment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-70
  • CHLOE ANGUS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Business Person
  • ELIZABETH GRASSO Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Self Employed Charity Project, Administrator And F
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 19/10/2006, number: 1116421
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/01/2001, number: 04137726
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR19: 56 days late, AR18: 153 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR12: 0 days late, AR11: 15 days late, AR08: 13 days late,
Main office

11 SOAR WORKS
PARSON CROSS
SHEFFIELD
S5 9NU

Objectives

1 TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF THOSE IN NEED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF, PROVIDE TRAINING FOR AND OTHERWISE ASSIST THOSE IN NEED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO ENABLE THEM TO OBTAIN PAID EMPLOYMENT3 TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF, AND PROMOTE AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF, THE PERFORMANCE AND SKILLS OF INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PROVIDED BY THE CHARITY AND OTHERS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE MORE EFFECTIVE AND ABLE TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTSTHE EXPRESSION 'THOSE IN NEED' MEANS THOSE WHO ARE POOR (AS POVERTY IS UNDERSTOOD BY THE LAW RELATING TO CHARITIES) OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED BY REASON OF HOMELESSNESS, OR IMPAIRMENT OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HEALTH OR ABILITY, OR UNEMPLOYMENT OR OF PERSONAL HISTORIES OF ALCOHOL- OR DRUG-ABUSE OR CRIME.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, SOUTH YORKSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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